Golf tee



May 29, 1928.

H. L. CLARKE GOLF TEE Filed April 7' 1928 Patented 'May 29, 1928. i

1,611,813 1 UNITED STATEsPA'TeNT orifice.

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l eonrm Application llel Ayrllll, These improvements 4relate to golf "The prime object is to provide a tee accord tory shots will be ad y the or ing to which a hi her ercenta of satisfacry player than he would obtain with the usual sand tee or any tee providing merely (gravitational support for the ball.

o this end my ers, or balls leaving the tee with practically no,trajectory, the ball a ow or V'traveling f or bouncing alonclose to or u n the sur face of the groun The tee is cigned also' to rovide some lateral directional eects.

theaccompan'gdra' re1- shows what I shall esignate as e pre erred y forni of the tee in side elevation, with a ball normally thereon and about to be struck by a club of the driver 2 -is-a perspec- 'tive of the tee of 1 on a somewhat cnlai-ged scale; Fig. 8 is a further enlarged per.

spective of a modied form of the device and Fig. 4 is 4.r-wp-p11mpf the im oi 3s A y improved tee xs eho'wn as what may be consldered a moldedV article and-of integral` this purpose tl 1e composition my practice these substantially parallel up- -stan edges 11' continue u wardly on curved es at ,12 providing su which .the ball at 18 w ]l gravitationallg'llrxdste when the track elements' 11 are inclined upwardin the normally forward direction. Betwecnthe tracks 11, as at 14 TEE) the body is prefere suiciently o owed or otherwise given earance' in the downwardldirection to provide that the will normally touch an rest upon the device the tracks 11 and the upwardly-dionl on rcc'ed extensions 12 thereof.

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The body 10 s`normally. ported and carried h a steln, spme or esige 15 which in and 2,-1 a shown ae being improved.'- tee provides A' means for overcoming to a notable. extent the eiects of poor strokes resulting in und-A the center of vity" bevond the retgibng 1m. Ierlal lo'. 908,1".

in shape. In the device of Figs. 1 and 2 the at ri ht track elements 11 are angles to the -axsof the 'ike At e time of use the spike as 1 will usually be. und at a substantiall forcedV into the angle to the vertical, as shown in Fig.

where the mok elemente 11 m directed upwar at acorrespondin angle. Should the driving blow be such, or example, as to drive the ball forward horizontally, it would at on'ce encounter resistance to that horizontal movement. in the upwardly track elements of therunwdy, and this is 4cox'nmuuicat'ed to the bedded in' the ground. I ave demonstrated the track elements and that t e ounder which otherwise would have ensu 'the shot produces a ball ywell 'clearingthe und.

InFl t" 3 the incline ovvnwv y from -front to rear when the spike 21 id inserted vertlcally Into the und, and at 22 these track elemente m e upward to form astop or final testeurf 'face forthe ball, the sameasinFlg. 1 The bemgeltiyramxdal, a

spike'21- is shownas form better adapted to twistlng or turning of the bo'dy on e ans of thd spike. should the blow tend f3 drvethe ball laterally of its intended course. On 'such what-laterally-directed blows the ball imarallel track elements 20! ille 15' rmly m` 7 that in 'such case theball isdivertedupwar somepinges against one ofthe track elemente, 11

-or 20, encountering reslstance ten to overcome the eect of the n :1'

According to Fig. 3 when the minimal ded mwthimi tha axis o e e c ar, e or track elesilxientspe dene that d of elevation in the fli ht of the ball w lchttshold-hye toto t tory'so ccor'ng -1. e ayer does not need to concern wli the angle between the direction of the track and the surface of the ground, althou h, should he desire a greater angle the e as 21 ke isY could be inserted downwardly an OI'WGFY as in Fig.v1-.

According to the device of l Flgthe player inserts the spike at the partlcular angle which at the time and place he may prefer, so long of course as .he does not t of the ball rearw or stop elements as 'It-is to ,be noted that the spike elements in both of the forms shown are substantially sco of the 90 Iplaim:

.thick at their respective bases and where they are imbedded in the round. This is not lonly to provide notab e strength,. but also resistance toits movement, of one kind 5 or another in the ground.- It will have been observed that the arrangement of the several arts is such that the layer may raise the all as freely and as ully7 as he might do' with some other 10 type ci tee. It isonly when his stroke is too much downward or too nearly horizontal at the time of impact that the elongated upwardly-inclined runway7 is brought into effect. l* I contemplate as being included in these t im rovementsall such changes, variations an departures from what is thus` specifically illustrated and described as fall within th appended claims.

1.. A golf tee having means for holdin the hall inclu a palr of elongated trae 'elements substantlally parallel to each other and providing a runway for the ball, and a 25 spike element ipro'eeting normally downward from said all-hol means and adapted to be inserted into t e ground.

2. The combination of claim 1 hereof in Vbeing of inte which there are .l 'means at the normali rear end ofthe ballolding means for hol lo at their normally rear endlortions to provide rest surfaces'for theb l 4. The combination 4of claiml 1 hereof in which said ball-holding spike element are of integra said s ike elementis materially thick to provide lirm anchorage of itwhen 'normally inserted in the ground. .5. A .golf tee comprisin an elongated body having upstandu si es terminating 46 in substantially arall edges forming a runway, saidA terminatin 1n means at their'rear ends vely an la spike element extending normally 'downf ward from said body and adapted to be in- I0 serted into the ground,.the ,dev1ce complete construction and of 'a strong materia substantially-of the char aoter of bakelite.

.Hmnnrnomnxnj' means and said cERrlFlcA'lr or coRluicrIona P'atent No. 1,671, 81;.

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HARLEY L.

- It is hereby certiiied that error appears in the printed speeifieatxonof the. above numbered patent requiring correctionv as' follows' Page l, line E9, 'for the werd "of" read "or; same page, line 6l, for the word "substantially read mtmmla mdthnt the said Letters Patent should ,berend with these eerrect'iona therein'V that the same may `conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

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.thick at their respective bases and where they are imbedded in the round. This is not lonly to provide notab e strength,. but also resistance toits movement, of one kind 5 or another in the ground.- It will have been observed that the arrangement of the several arts is such that the layer may raise the all as freely and as ully7 as he might do' with some other 10 type ci tee. It isonly when his stroke is too much downward or too nearly horizontal at the time of impact that the elongated upwardly-inclined runway7 is brought into effect. l* I contemplate as being included in these t im rovementsall such changes, variations an departures from what is thus` specifically illustrated and described as fall within th appended claims.

1.. A golf tee having means for holdin the hall inclu a palr of elongated trae 'elements substantlally parallel to each other and providing a runway for the ball, and a 25 spike element ipro'eeting normally downward from said all-hol means and adapted to be inserted into t e ground.

2. The combination of claim 1 hereof in Vbeing of inte which there are .l 'means at the normali rear end ofthe ballolding means for hol lo at their normally rear endlortions to provide rest surfaces'for theb l 4. The combination 4of claiml 1 hereof in which said ball-holding spike element are of integra said s ike elementis materially thick to provide lirm anchorage of itwhen 'normally inserted in the ground. .5. A .golf tee comprisin an elongated body having upstandu si es terminating 46 in substantially arall edges forming a runway, saidA terminati 1n means at their'rear ends vely an la spike element extending normally 'downf ward from said body and adapted to be in- I0 serted into the ground,.the ,dev1ce complete construction and of 'a strong materia substantially-of the char aoter of bakelite.

.Hmnnrnomnxnj' means and said cERilFlcA'lr or coRluicrIona P'atent No. 1,671, 81;.

- ormai m1221928,- fo

HARLEY L.

- It is hereby certilied that error appears in the printed speeifieatxonof the. above numbered patent requiring correctionv as' follows' Page l, line E9, 'for the werd "of" read "or; same page, line 6l, for the word "substantially read mtmmla mdthnt the said Letters Patent should ,berend with these eerrect'iona therein'V that the same may `conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

signed ma mm1 ein; wa ai ef July. A.. n. 192s.

. (Seal) l Je A 'Actinz Conmiaaionerof Patents.

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